Turley's scene-setting prepares the Journeymen reader for a compelling voyage through boxing's darkened alleyways and down-at-heel venues where we glance unsavoury characters, brush past the dodgiest dealers and ultimately have great empathy with men prepared to climb into the ring for a few hundred pounds.

The difficulty of sliding wads of cash from one big box to another made this test the dodgiest proposition by far, but also the most impressive and exciting, so the game show ended "up" in terms of viewers' excitement and involvement, rather than "down.

But I forgive Julie Hesmondhalgh because it was sparkly and the poor woman has spent the last 16 years wearing a red anorak and stuffed under one of the dodgiest on-screen wigs since David Bowie in Labrinth.

Birds of Prey'' (WB) isn't exploiting its legacy enough - it's drawn, loosely, from the ``Batman'' mythology - but probably represents the dodgiest pilot with the greatest chance of getting fixed as the show goes to series.

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